Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Major R. Maitland Beath, Royal Army Medical Corps

1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Major) nearly extremely fine (3) £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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Robert Maitland Beath was born in 1886. He was a student of Queen’s University, Belfast, first in the faculty of Arts, where he obtained a B.A. in 1907 and then in the faculty of medicine where he graduated with a M.B., B.Ch. in 1914. He subsequently graduated with a M.B., B.S. at the University of London in 1919. Called up in 1914, he proceeded to France where had varied experiences as a battalion medical officer, on an ambulance train, and as a radiologist in a casualty clearing station. He later served on a hospital ship in the Middle East. He was demobilised in 1919 with the rank of Major.

After the war, as a result of his wartime experiences, he began to specialise in radiology and became Radiologist to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast; Radiologist to the Belfast Union Infirmary, and radiologist to various other institutions in and around Belfast.

Beath was a Member of the British Medical Association, Member of the British Institute of Radiology, Member of the Radiological Society of Ireland and a Fellow of the Ulster Medical Society. Dr Beath died on 21 November 1940.

With copied research.